Rick Marriner

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06 July 2026 02:14

A #grain of doubt is not a small amount. It is the precise amount required to crack the next certainty. Most ruined decisions did not need much. They needed someone in the room willing to drop a grain into the gear at the right second, and someone willing to listen. #vss365 #writingcommunity

Rick Marriner

rickmarriner.com

13 February 2026 15:17

I write one sentence at a time, for one reader at a time. They may never know they’re the reader. It’s broadcast, yes, but aimed like a private beam of thought. Others overhear, but my hope is in that single line reaching a single soul. That’s writing for my muse. #writingcommunity #muse

Rick Marriner

rickmarriner.com

22 September 2025 03:07

A #catastrophe, I thought at first, her quiet on the hill. But the wind in the Scottish heather sang of bridges still standing, hidden in distance. I carry the little canary claim slip, worn and small, a talisman of passage; of potential, deniable in detail, but as real as memory. #vss365

Rick Marriner

rickmarriner.com

20 September 2025 14:41

#Extrusion calculations again? A torus pressed through four-space, its shadow writhing on his screen; a holy scroll half-burned. The ship waited for orders, patient, cruel. He knew the numbers solved themselves, but only if he surrendered the part of him that still believed in Euclid. #vss365